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|header2= <center><big>Matrix Freeter, Tool of the Kanaga-gumi</big></center>
|header2= <center><big>Tool of the Kanaga-gumi, Proud Black Hat</big></center>
|header3= <center>Self-Proclaimed Cyberpriestess and 世界一かわいいハッカーです～</center>
|header3= <center>Self-Proclaimed Cyberpriestess and 世界一かわいいハッカーです～</center>
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==Summary==
==Summary==
Sad brat of a technomancer with a chip on her shoulder and a grudge against her dad and the Kanaga-gumi. Currently working her way toward freedom from the Yakuza.
{{Gamequote|''"天のストーリーライター''<br>
''最後''<br>
''その手で''<br>
''愛をそのペンで最後------ "''<br>
''-----''<br>
''"Ten no STORYWRITER''<br>
''saigo''<br>
''sono te de''<br>
''ai wo sono pen de saigo------ "''<br>
''-----''<br>
''"Heaven's Story Writer,''<br>
''at last,''<br>
''by your hand.''<br>
''Finally, by your pen, love..."''<br>
'''"STORYWRITER" - SUPERCAR'''}}


===Goals===
===Goals===
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** As of [[Graduation Day]], she has her R6 SIN, one that she hopes to keep squeaky clean.  
** As of [[Graduation Day]], she has her R6 SIN, one that she hopes to keep squeaky clean.  
* The Professional Downfall and (Probably) Death of Her Father, [[Takashi Kurosawa]]
* The Professional Downfall and (Probably) Death of Her Father, [[Takashi Kurosawa]]
** Subsequently, Escape From the Grip of the [[Kanaga-gumi]] Yakuza Clan
* Explore the Resonance Realms, and Become Attuned with Other Technomancers and the Deep Resonance
* Explore the Resonance Realms, and Become Attuned with Other Technomancers and the Deep Resonance
* Extend a Hand to [[Caliban]], and Bring Her Somewhere Safe, and Warm, and Quiet
* Fight to Protect [[Fennec]]'s Life, and Do Better Than Last Time
* Find Out If [[Bunny Hop|Akiha Kurosawa]] is Actually Worth Loving
** And If She Is, Find Out How to Handle Maybe [[Red Ribbon|Falling in Love in Turn]]
* Continue to Hone Her Hacking Skills
* Continue to Hone Her Hacking Skills


==Background==
==Background==
===Summary===
The "son" (trans-daughter) of the [[Kanaga-gumi]]'s ''shategashira,'' head of enforcement and clan soldiers. She emerged as a child after the murder of her mother at the hands of Halloweeners, and when she was not being forced to do work for the Yakuza afterward, she largely dissociated on the Matrix, where she came to understand it as a great ''tsukumogami,'' the kami that come alive when tools are used for one hundred years (give or take).


'''WIP'''
After an unfortunate reveal of her abilities during a botched assassination on her father, he now has her disowned and under his thumb. Under threat of death or MCT extraction, she must work for the [[Kanaga-gumi]], and help her father find out who placed a hit on him, and why. With goals of her own, a hatred for her father, and the yearning for freedom, she lives a second life in the shadows, where she accumulates resources and allies for her eventual escape.


Though she is not dead, Akiha Kurosawa's life ended when she was seven years old. Though she is not alive, her mother yet lives in every moment, each time she is recorded, rewound, and replayed while burning to death. The phrase "Better Than Life" seems to her in every replay a cruel joke.
===Her History===
 
Though she is not dead, Akiha Kurosawa's life ended when she was seven years old. Though her mother is not alive, she yet lives in every moment, each time she is recorded, rewound, and replayed while burning to death. The phrase "Better Than Life" seems in every replay a cruel joke.


During an apparently innocuous trip to downtown Seattle, suspiciously scrupulous Halloweeners run a bit of cord along a narrow road and pull it tight to bring a young mother and her oldest child skidding to the ground. She screams and reaches for a side-arm she didn't dare try to sneak through the SIN scanners, and she is beaten bloody for her effort. With a ragged voice, she only begs that they not take her child, and for a mercy uncommon among their brutal ranks, they do not.  
During an apparently innocuous trip to downtown Seattle, suspiciously scrupulous Halloweeners run a bit of cord along a narrow road and pull it tight to bring a young mother and her oldest child skidding to the ground. She screams and reaches for a side-arm she didn't dare try to sneak through the SIN scanners, and she is beaten bloody for her effort. With a ragged voice, she only begs that they not take her child, and for a mercy uncommon among their brutal ranks, they do not.  


Akiha Kurosawa, already half-emerged, cries as her mother is dragged into the murky underground of a gutter, and when she is dry of tears and flat in a hospital bed, she dissociates, falls out of her body, and never quite returns. The sprites of the Matrix chirp as her young persona is born.  
Akiha, already half-emerged, cries as her mother is dragged into the murky underground of a gutter, and when she is dry of tears and flat in a hospital bed, she dissociates, falls out of her body, and never quite returns. The sprites of the Matrix chirp as her young persona is born.  


[[Takashi Kurosawa|Her father]] is little comfort, a rising star of the grievously Old School [[Kanaga-gumi]] and more preoccupied with his work than his children, no matter his lip service. He tells her, his oldest son, that Koichi Kurosawa is his first-born and his lineage, and that one-day his lineage will follow his footsteps into the Yakuza as his pride. She is eight-years old, and has no strength to deny the only love she might have left. She abandons even the thought of telling him she is his daughter, and will painfully choose to deny she'd ever thought so for several more years to come.  
[[Takashi Kurosawa|Her father]] is little comfort, a rising star of the grievously Old School [[Kanaga-gumi]] and more preoccupied with his work than his children, no matter his lip service. He tells her, his oldest son, that Koichi Kurosawa is his first-born and his lineage, and that one-day his lineage will follow his footsteps into the Yakuza as his pride. She is eight-years old, and has no strength to deny the only love she might have left. She abandons even the thought of telling him she is his daughter, and will painfully choose to deny she'd ever thought so for several more years to come.  


Well into a pubescence that is to her horrific, he grooms her to fight and withstand pain, when he can manage to find her awake. She is made to hold blades and fire weapons and be burned with cigarettes and hot shells that leave her skin pink over a decade later. She is made to fist-fight her brother, and where he revels in violence and the call of duty, she crumbles. She is made to bleed, and though she is told this makes her strong, she can only remember the hurt.
Not long into a pubescence that is to her horrific, he grooms her to fight and withstand pain, when he can manage to find her awake. She is made to hold blades and fire weapons and be burned with cigarettes and hot shells that leave her skin pink over a decade later. She is made to fist-fight her brother, and where he revels in violence and the call of duty, she crumbles. She is made to bleed, and though she is told this makes her strong, she can only remember the hurt.


But more often, she is asleep, or staring blankly at walls. Sometimes she crumbles, like warm laundry, onto the ground, and awakens days later, dehydrated and starving and alive and wishing she were not. She wears no trodes, no patch, and doctors can find nothing wrong. They call it PTSD, for lack of true knowledge.
But more often, she is asleep, or staring blankly at walls. Sometimes she leaves her body and lets it crumble like warm laundry onto the ground, and days later awakens dehydrated and starving and alive and wishing she were not. She wears no trodes, no patch, and doctors can find nothing wrong to explain her fainting spells. They shrug their shoulders and call it PTSD.


Her father remarries a properly Japanese woman, and his ''oyabun'' is pleased. Eventually, he abandons her training, and leaves her, as a stick-like corpse in its gentle repose, to slowly rot.  
Her father remarries a properly Japanese woman, [[Sato Kanaga]]'s niece, and the ''oyabun'' is pleased. Eventually, he abandons Akiha's training, and leaves her, as a stick-like corpse in its gentle repose, to slowly rot.  


But every moment asleep is a moment alive in another world. Her childish persona emerges and teases at threads and strings tying hosts to level Earth. She befriends the little creatures that find her, and finds that they are unspeakable to many of those around her. She is mocked for insisting she sees ''kami'' in the newly formed Matrix, and called a liar at best. She gradually realizes that she is a child alone with the world. The rabbit-like sprites she has found as friends and family comfort her.  
But every moment asleep is a moment alive in another world. Her childish persona emerges and teases at threads and strings tying hosts to level Earth. She befriends the little creatures that find her, and finds that they are unspeakable to many of those around her. She is mocked for insisting she sees ''kami'' in the newly formed Matrix, and called a liar at best. She gradually realizes that she is a child alone with the world. The rabbit-like sprites she has found as friends and family comfort her.  
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By the time she eventually falls in with other 'trode children, she has been long since taught to speak nothing of the blood and beating heart of the Matrix thumping alongside her own. She imagines herself as a shrine maiden, she imagines herself with family, and she imagines her true self special and loved and chosen - and falls numb to keep from crying whenever she awakens to the meat.  
By the time she eventually falls in with other 'trode children, she has been long since taught to speak nothing of the blood and beating heart of the Matrix thumping alongside her own. She imagines herself as a shrine maiden, she imagines herself with family, and she imagines her true self special and loved and chosen - and falls numb to keep from crying whenever she awakens to the meat.  


Her teens are spent online. Her body atrophies from disuse, save for those few moments she blankly plays gopher to the [[Kanaga-gumi]], or performs even worse crimes for their sake, or rides her mother's Scoot to try and anchor her fleeting memory in something real. Takashi Kurosawa climbs to the rank of ''shategashira,'' and they move into nicer, more traditional Japanese homes, and indulge in ever-nicer Japanese dinners, and she experiences all of it only as a bad dream.
Her teens are spent online. Her body atrophies from disuse, save for those few moments she blankly plays gopher to the [[Kanaga-gumi]], or performs even worse crimes for their sake, or rides her mother's Scoot to try and anchor her fleeting memory in something real. [[Takashi Kurosawa]], now close family to the ''oyabun'', climbs to the rank of ''shategashira,'' and they move into nicer, more traditional Japanese homes, and indulge in ever-nicer Japanese dinners, and she experiences all of it only as a bad dream.
 
She hacks because she loves to craft the forms that change the forms around her, and because to forge a shim of just the right shape to slip between the seams of otherwise flawless code brings her joy, and because it is a sign of love for the only things that have loved her in return. She learns more complex forms of hacking, and feels that this brings her closer to the soul of the world, though she also learns the word "technomancer" and all the stigma it brings. She's relieved, nonetheless, to know that she is not uniquely absurd.
 
She sleazes slushies off of Stuffer Shacks and trids off of Horizon hosts. She changes her icon to a pretty girl so she can catfish boys out of passwords and in-game gold, and embarrassingly finds she does not want to change herself back. She dives into foundations, ill-advised, and though there are hiccups and horrors and might-have-been-friends who never log in again, crises of conscience and trying on white hats that never quite fit, she always returns to her love.
 
Throughout it all, Akiha is, at her core, alone but for the sprites at her side. She childishly wonders for far longer than she should when others like her might come to bring her to her real life.
 
===Her Real Life===
 
On the second Monday of January 2084, Akiha, her siblings, her step-mother, and her father wander Downtown Seattle's annual ''seijin no hi'' festivities to celebrate her upcoming twentieth birthday. While her father discusses plans for a visit to Japan for her younger brother's, she counts the myriad hosts and device icons like stars in the sky, and idly shapes the blocks of code that would peel away each unique Firewall were she to send it their way.
 
Her dull eyes halt, however, on a half-dozen smartlinked machine pistols running silent. Their hidden personas linger around corners and push into cover. Each are marked by a faintly visible trail of footprints back to a horrific oni standing menacingly atop a host, and with dawning realization and horror, she understands that their maneuvers are not those of bodyguards, but of assassins.
 
Her dull eyes hastily become sharp. Her persona, eyes identical, rises from her body and carefully treads behind the oni, close enough to snoop on their traffic.
 
"[Harsh to do it with his family around.]"
 
"[He's a demon. He'll respect the play when he's in Hell.]"
 
"[Hold firm. Kurosawa's a demon for a reason, middle-age hasn't changed that. We wait for the best possible shot.]"
 
Her little half-sister grins and munches on candy, and Akiha cannot bear to let her experience watching a dear parent die. Nor does she yet hate her father harshly enough to wish for his death on such gruesome terms.
 
To her family, Akiha feigns interest in a mural in the ''ukiyo-e'' style a block or two back. She asks her father to come with her, to take her picture, and while her lips awkwardly stumble across her words, her persona mutters well-practiced ''norito'' to cleanse the space, zero-out code, and make it clean for a fresh compilation. She will need help from her Matrix siblings.
 
Half-amused, he follows her, and tells the rest to wait for them in a public space, and as they part, she transforms before his eyes.
 
"[There are six, plus a Matrix presence,]" she announces to her father as he cocks a suspicious eyebrow. "[Smartlinked Ingram machine pistols.]"
 
He glares at her incredulously.
 
"[I'm disabling as many as I can, but they're already moving. They'll be on us as soon as we turn into the alley.]"
 
"[You're talking like you're a decker or something. You don't even have a dongle, Koichi.]"
 
A bright, white rabbit, luminescent like the moon, twirls into being in AR. Akiha bites her tongue. As predicted, the moment she and her steadily darkening father find themselves in front of the mural, either end of the little alley is eclipsed by three wide bodies, weapons sharp and drawn.
 
Her persona extends a lonesome finger gun, winks, and fires a beam bright and wide as moonlight. One of the raised smartguns sizzles and pops in the Yakuza's hands, and he yelps a shocked and vulgar curse - the other two, similarly, raise their guns and hold their triggers, but find each of them jammed, and after a quick dip into AR, discover each of their gun's icons being mercilessly hammered by a rabbit with a mochi mallet.
 
Gunshots deafen them from behind - Akiha winces and glances sharply over her shoulder, but finds her father already there, cyberlimbs cranked and whirring and slamming the yakuza into newly formed yakuza-shaped craters in the mural. He eats shots point blank, and he bleeds, though they come away flattened like coins clattering on the asphalt below. In an alley so narrow, he has no trouble snapping forward and snatching a wrist to wrench the pistol away from one of them before pouring the entire magazine, mercilessly full auto, into his chest.
 
Akiha blanches. Though horrified, this is not her first time seeing the Demon of Kanaga fight.
 
The other three, disarmed save for hidden blades in their coats, hesitate. Though bound by honor, reason keeps a firm grip in that eternal fight between ''ninjoo'' and ''giri.''
 
"[His son!]" A careful chatlogger on the opfor decker's device pings his message through to her as well. "[Take him hostage!]"
 
The man on the left tightly clenches his knife, and with a burst of resolve, sprints ahead, tip thrust forward, screaming. She frantically shouts a ''norito,'' threads a complex form of program, and begs the Resonance to flow, rich and full, through the channels she carves.
 
Spring water wells from the Source.
 
In imagelinked contacts, Akiha disappears. Each device, bidden by the power beneath power that flows through them all, intelligently selects and deletes her image from their feed. The charging man, now only yards away, stumbles and grinds to a swift halt in the asphalt.
 
"[Is his kid a ''mage''!?]"
 
"[Kurosawa's been keeping that one under his hat-]"
 
"[''Get out,'']" the decker screams in AR. "[That's enough - we have footage, if we show the oyabun his kid's a mage, he'll have them ''both'' killed, problem solved.]"
 
His DNI is interrupted by another pour of molten lead into a poor Yakuza's chest. [[Takashi Kurosawa]] throws the empty smart pistol to the side.
 
The remaining two run. [[Takashi Kurosawa]] blurs into angry streaks of chrome and scrapes of steel. They do not live to see the end of the alley. He takes their guns off the ground, and each of the six times he pops their fallen heads like bubblewrap, she winces, and dulls, and becomes a little more distant.
 
Until, at last, he faces her, though she cannot face him.
 
"[You're bleeding,]" he tells her simply. Warm droplets trickle from her nose and glide across her lips to fall onto her clothes. Her sprite flits back into sight and settles onto her shoulders, where her living persona stands overlaid with her flesh. She says nothing.
 
He slaps her.
 
"[Son of a bitch, you're a] ''toaster fucker.''"
 
Her eyes shatter like glass. Akiha becomes a scope on a rifle, clear and sharp and hostile, though distant and anywhere but here, all at once. She glares defiantly to the side, still unable to meet his eyes, and mumbles.
 
"Your English still needs work, ''otou-san.'' It's pronounced, 'Thank you for saving my life, kid. I'm really grateful.'"
 
He flushes with rage and takes an aggressive step forward - she stumbles into the wall, back first, and must lift her chin as he tightly grips her, one around her wrist, one around her neck. She hacks - coughs, this time, not comms.
 
"You little ''rat,'' hiding this from me? You're no son of mine. It would've been better if you'd died just now and saved me the ''embarrassment''."
 
Akiha wheezes for breath. Her boyish hands grip futilely at his wrist, begging for release. Her kneels curl and feet shove against the wall behind.
 
Akiha always knew this is how the reveal would go. Her living persona rises from her future corpse. She dissociates, almost. She wants to see the emerald sky and its galaxy of hosts as she goes, and to hold her dear sprites close to her chest while she does.
 
"''Your daughter''...!" Her body rasps - and he, in shock, releases her.
 
"[What?]"
 
Life floods her lungs. She doubles over gasping for breath, knees and palms flat on the Earth, and sucks two or three greedy breaths before speaking.
 
"I'm not your son, I'm your ''daughter'', dad!" She spits, cringing at her own voice as it cracks. Her fists curl into impotent little balls. The soft bits of her palms bleed against the rough bits of the asphalt. Blood blends with snot and saliva as each drip freely onto the pavement. Her eyes, too, bleed salty tears to join them.
 
"I'm not just a technomancer, I'm your ''daughter.'' I'm a ''girl.'' I've ''always'' been. Or wanted to be." And though she glares, a sliver of weakness slips through her lips.
 
"Please, dad..."
 
A mote of the child she was still wants an awful man's love. She shivers, and swallows several quiet and desperate sobs. Distant sirens close in on the sound of gunshots - spotting their icons on the grid, she estimates only two to three more minutes before they clue in on the source.
 
A still-warm barrel presses roughly against the back of her bowed head. Kurosawa's voice simmers with obvious rage.
 
"[Sure. You obviously don't want to be my son, ''Koichi''. And never in a million years will you be my daughter - between this and the toaster shit, you must be mentally ill. And since I'm not some limp-dicked New Way bleeding heart, I guess you're just a disappointment.]"
 
"[You've got a choice, Koichi. If you want to be some Matrix degenerate fucking men and toasters, then you should rot like one. I'll call up some contacts right now, you'll be in a Zero Zone by tonight, they'd love another freak like you on the operating table. Or you can kill yourself and die with a little dignity - I've got a ''tanto'' right here. Or maybe...]"
 
The barrel slowly peels away. Those are empty threats - she thinks. She hopes.  


She hacks because she loves to craft the forms that change the forms around her, and because to forge a shim of just the right shape to slip between the seams of otherwise flawless code brings her joy, and because it is a sign of love for the only world that has loved her in return. She learns more complex forms of hacking, and feels that this brings her closer to the soul of the world.  
"[We sweep this under the rug. You pretend to be my loyal and mundane ''son'', like you're ''supposed'' to be, even though we both know the truth.]"


She sleazes slushies off of Stuffer Shacks and trids off of Horizon hosts. She changes her icon to catfish boys out of passwords and in-game gold, and embarrassedly finds she does not want to change herself back. She dives into foundations, ill-advised, and though there are hiccups and horrors and might-have-been-friends who never log in again, she always returns to her love.
He kneels, grips her hair, and roughly tugs her up to meet his gaze. Tears and spit and blood stream down her bright red face, though she glares daggers and data spikes and molten lead into his eyes. She hates him. She has never wanted to, but she always has, and it's only now that she finally, without restraint, lets the intensity of that emotion overwhelm her. Kurosawa's gruff expression, so dark, so openly disgusted, twinkles faintly with pride.


Throughout it all, Akiha is, at her core, alone but for the sprites at her side. She childishly wonders for far longer than she should when others like her might come to bring her to her real life.  
"[What, you've got fight in you after all? All these years and it's the first time I'm seeing it. Take a swing then, if you want my respect. But if you really want to live, Koichi,]" and he yanks up her head by the roots of her hair, and she cries out in pain. "[Tell me where the other one is. The Matrix presence. You can find him, right? With your weird little brain?]"


She sells them out, knowing it is their death. Only a block away, East. Rapidly descending. Leaving a building, she guesses. Kurosawa lets her drop to the ground.


"[Get up. Wash up in a bathroom. Go back to your step-mom. Say nothing. And Koichi, if you ever even think about running away or saying a single word of what you told me just now? I swear, I'll move the entire clan to find you.]"


((((BHop, born and raised in the Seattle area, is the first child of [[Takashi Kurosawa]], then a rising star of the [[Kanaga-gumi]]. Though groomed from childhood to follow in her father's footsteps as part of the gumi's Kumi-in, her poor aptitude for such things and her apparent dissociative PTSD from the death of her mother at a young age led to her being passed over as her father's favored heir. Her awakening as a Technomancer around the same point in time gave her the independence and rebellion she craved to discover herself along the fiber optic roads of the Matrix.
"''Hai.''"


She made small waves, vandalized some hosts and competed in some duels and played at being an activist, though here too she quickly realized that she was in some way aberrant compared to those around her, just like she was in the meat. While proper deckers talked shop and hardware in precise and learned terms, Bun compiled sprites in code that she felt more than understood. Deckers talked marks on devices, and Bun instead simply reached in to feel the souls she swore were there. Small wonder, then, that she fell to obscurity, unwilling to out herself and unable to match more capable codeslingers in brute strength alone. Competitive games were her salvation instead - in the Matrix, a place that felt more real than her own meat, running and gunning and fighting in ways without blood or death, in ways where she could dream of going pro and being free, were her hope in the face of worlds that couldn't understand what she was and didn't want to try.  
"[I'll make some calls and spin the story of what happened here. Little Tokyo pawns should be on our payroll already. And you and I will talk tonight.]"


The meat, however, was unfortunately an inescapable hole. When hotsim was not an option, she was made to fight, to bleed, to hurt, against her brother, her father, and other Yakuza. She was told that this made her strong, though she only remembers the hurt it brought. When she was given up on as a proper heir, she was still made to work for the gumi, delivering packages and messages on the meat, and occasionally spotting for the group while more illicit activities were performed. Even more occasionally, she would be made to perform more grisly tasks herself as a way of hardening her and making her complicit - especially to those around her age, who many even in the gumi couldn't stomach hurting themselves.
"''Hai.''"


On her twentieth birthday, during her own Seijin no Hi celebration, she thwarted an attempted hit on her father from as yet unknown operatives, disabling their weapons. Rather than praise, she was beaten and berated by her father for both being a Technomancer and for concealing her power from him. He told her, in a fit of reckless rage, that the hitmen should have killed her too, so that at least her death would have honor unlike her life.
He blurs, vaporizes, disappears in a chunky sprint. Akiha rises unsteadily to her feet and wipes her tears on her sleeve. The six corpses surrounding her offer no comfort.  


She snapped. With impotent balled-up fists, she spat that not only was she a Technomancer, but that she, his first son, was a woman as well, and was instantly disowned. She was given two options - with a blade at her neck, she could die, either here or as an MCT lab rat, or she could become his tool, another pawn in a game of power. He could use her - and more importantly, could not stand the familial shame were all her truths made light. She would be silently disposed of, or made into a tool more useful than the liability she brought. With gritted teeth and salted tears, she accepted. Even as she said it, however, gears of desperate rebellion turned in her head. She knew people - years of living on the Matrix can give a girl access to all sorts of people and places, even those outside the powerful grip of the Yakuza.)))))
She'll find a public restroom. She'll clean up, regroup, and say nothing, just as the demon says to.
 
And then that night, on the Matrix and well away from any of their prying eyes, she'll ring a [[Anhe|certain commcode]].
 
If she is going to escape, she will need all the help she can get.  
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===Positive===
===Positive===
* '''Bilingual''' - BHop is Japanese-American, and frequently plays up her Japanese fluency for its cute-factor.  
* '''Haafu''' - ''(Bilingual)'' - Akiha is a Japanese-American child of two cultures. Though her feelings on her Japanese side are mixed, she embraces the positive aspects of her heritage more often than not.
* '''Instinctive Hack / One With the Matrix / Hi-Rez / Etc.''' - As a Technomancer from a young age, and with a past of dissociation from meatspace, the Matrix is intimately entangled with BHop's brain structure and way of thought. Far from being a first resort, it is often the only one in her head.
* '''Matrix Native''' - ''(Instinctive Hack | One With the Matrix | Hi-Rez | Etc.)'' - As a Technomancer from a young age, and with a past of dissociation from meatspace, the Matrix is intimately entangled with BHop's brain structure and way of thought. Far from being a first resort, it is often the only one in her head.
* '''Spiritual (Technomancer)''' - The Deep Resonance is one of the great ''kami'', the broader spirit of the Matrix, its great ''tsukumogami''. Pay it reverence and it will provide for its adopted resonant children. So she thinks, anyway.  
* '''Cyberpriestess''' - ''(Technomancer | Resonance Stream: Sourceror | Paragon: Delphi [The Oracle])'' - The Deep Resonance is one of the great ''kami'', the broader spirit of the Matrix come to life, its ubiquitous ''tsukumogami'', and the soul of the digital world. Commune, attune, and respect, and it will embrace its resonant children. So she believes, anyway.  
* '''Analytical Mind / Speed Reading / Brilliant Heuristics''' - She's had a lot of practice needing to read through files and metadata ''very'' quickly in order to safely do her job. She's picked up a knack for seeing patterns in these things by now.
* '''Information Professional''' - ''(Analytical Mind | Speed Reading | Brilliant Heuristics)'' - She's had a lot of practice needing to read through files and metadata ''very'' quickly in order to safely do her job. She's picked up a knack for seeing patterns in these things by now.
* '''Unique Avatar''' - After an eye-opening experience with a physical mask spell of her persona([[Hot Potato (Chips)]]), she's managed to build an unbelievably realistic Version 2.0 of the Bunny Hop branded Matrix presence! After some frank discussions and solid performance on the job, she's started to garner a small reputation in the shadows.
* '''One of a Kind''' - ''(Unique Avatar)'' - After an eye-opening experience with a physical mask spell of her persona([[Hot Potato (Chips)]]), she's managed to build an unbelievably realistic Version 2.0 of the Bunny Hop branded Matrix presence! After some frank discussions and solid performance on the job, she's started to garner a small reputation in the shadows.


===Negative===
===Negative===
* '''Basement Dweller''' - See above; BHop has spent the majority of her life online, and does not feel comfortable in her skin on top of that. It's only by the miracle of needing to work that she can bring herself to speak with strangers in person at all.
* '''Socially Awkward''' - ''(Basement Dweller | Social Appearance Anxiety 1 [Gender Dysphoria])'' - Akiha has spent the vast majority of her life online, and still finds it difficult to properly express herself in real life. Couple this with the sensitive girl looking boyish at best, and she struggles even at the best of times. (Androgyny ''skirts'' by without penalty in the case of SAA - baggie hoodies, face masks, and other mitigating options lend her enough comfort to keep her focus).  
* '''Driven (Downfall of Father)''' - See above; if Takashi Kurosawa loses his standing with the Kanaga-gumi and therefore his connections with MCT - better yet, if he loses his life, though this is a grisly detail she has not yet fully processed - then the only man who knows she is a technomancer is dead, and BHop starts on the path of freedom from the Kanaga-gumi.
* '''The Truth Will Set You Free''' - ''Driven (Downfall of Father)'' - Though it used to be about survival, as she accumulates more resources and digs deeper into the truth behind the death of her mother, her vendetta against [[Takashi Kurosawa]] has become less about self-preservation and more about finding answers. When her business is done, she can call on her resources and quit the [[Kanaga-gumi|''gumi'']] for good. She hopes.
* '''Emotional Attachment (Dodge Scoot [Haruko-chan])''' - It was her mom's. She's overhauled it with maintenance and customization since then, however.
* '''Stuck in the Past''' - ''(Emotional Attachment [Dodge Scoot (Haruko-chan)] | Phobia [Uncommon, Moderate] [Clowns/Halloweeners])'' - She holds onto her mom's memory however she can. Alexandra Robins' old Dodge Scoot, for a mechanically minded young woman, seems an ideal memorial, and the trauma of watching her mother shot and dragged away screaming has left Akiha a raw nerve when it comes to less kind reminders of that day.
* '''Phobia (Uncommon, Moderate) (Clowns [Halloweeners])''' - Nightmares after the death of her mother left their scars, exacerbated by early experiences on the Matrix. The fear of Halloweeners as a child quickly morphed into a broader fear of these apparent harbingers of death. Halloweeners specifically do have a stronger impact narratively if not mechanically.
* '''Wanted by Null Sect''' - ''(Data Hog)'' - After the events of [[Encroaching Viscosity]], the xenosapient AI hive known as Null Sect has her number. They follow her into the corners of the Matrix, and trace her code however they can. (This quality manifests mechanically as the Data Hog quality from Kill Code page 99.)
* '''Social Appearance Anxiety 1 (Gender Dysphoria)''' - She girl. She doesn't look it, though. Androgynous at best. She's sensitive about that. If she's in a position where she has to dress or identify as male, this applies. Androgyny ''skirts'' by without penalty (as with dysphoria hoodies to disguise her silhouette, face-masks to cover up, etc).
* '''Wanted by Null Sect''' - After the events of [[Encroaching Viscosity]], the xenosapient AI hive known as Null Sect has her number. This quality manifests mechanically as the Data Hog quality from Kill Code page 99.


==Run History==
==Run History==
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{{HasContact|
{{HasContact|
|Name=Takashi Kurosawa
|Name=Takashi Kurosawa
|Loyalty=1
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|Chips=Even
|}}
|}}
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|Name=Angélica Cabral
|Name=Angélica Cabral
|Loyalty=3
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|Chips= -2
|}}
|}}


{{HasContact|
{{HasContact|
|Name=Kousuke Yamada
|Name=Kousuke Yamada
|Loyalty=1
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|Chips=Even
|}}
|}}
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{{HasContact|
{{HasContact|
|Name=Makali'i
|Name=Makali'i (Contact)
|Loyalty=3
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|Chips=Even
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{{HasContact|
{{HasContact|
|Name=C0nc0rd3
|Name=C0nc0rd3
|Loyalty=4
|Chips=Even
|}}
{{HasContact|
|Name=Ace Powers
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|}}
{{HasContact|
|Name=Amrei Veidt
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}
{{HasContact|
|Name=Corf
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}
{{HasContact|
|Name=Miguel Frausto
|Loyalty=4
|Loyalty=4
|Chips=Even
|Chips=Even
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===Relationships with NPCs===
===Relationships with NPCs===
* [[Anhe]]: Met her as a teenager during her hiatus from hacking to pursue Matrix Games. Anhe sees her a bit like a little sister to be protected, though trusts her skill and likes to rib her even still. Their relationship is softly antagonistic in the way siblings frequently are.  
* [[Anhe]]: Met her as a teenager during her hiatus from hacking to pursue Matrix Games. Anhe sees her a bit like a little sister to be protected, though trusts her skill and likes to rib her even still. Their relationship is softly antagonistic in the way siblings frequently are.  
* [[WRN3]]: Met during the events of [[As Goes Light]] and has had subsequent interactions through [[Fort Dumbass]] and [[Duvet]]. Again, a sibling energy exists between the two, thought his time BHop takes the smug, teasing older sister approach to WRN3's brattiness.
* [[Takashi Kurosawa]]: Antagonistic, bluntly speaking. Takashi Kurosawa is using Bunny Hop for his own means, and as a way to rise within the ranks of the gumi and sus out his supposed enemies. Kurosawa is at present unaware that Bunny Hop is shadowrunning on the side, but has his suspicions. If discovered, he would likely burn her, and sell her out to MCT while hiding as much information from the [[Kanaga-gumi]] as possible, in order to avoid the familial shame.
* [[Takashi Kurosawa]]: Antagonistic, bluntly speaking. Takashi Kurosawa is using Bunny Hop for his own means, and as a way to rise within the ranks of the gumi and sus out his supposed enemies. Kurosawa is at present unaware that Bunny Hop is shadowrunning on the side, but has his suspicions. If discovered, he would likely burn her, and sell her out to MCT while hiding that information from the [[Kanaga-gumi]], in order to avoid the familial shame.
* [[Kousuke Yamada]]: As a fixer for the Kanaga-gumi when they are driven so deeply into a corner that they must rely on the shadows for support, Yamada had the resources necessary to clock Bunny Hop's true identity after the events of [[Tying a Yoke To Yamada]]. Rather than ratting her extracurricular activities out to the [[Kanaga-gumi]], Yamada chose instead to steal Kurosawa's tool right out from under him. They are currently working in conjunction to find the evidence necessary to bring Kurosawa's past crimes to light, and to make defending him impossible even as the [[Sato Kanaga|oyabun]]'s favored pet enforcer.
* [[The Girl in Many Colors]]: A fellow Heavenseeker - first encountered on [[Third-Story Malpractice]] as a freelance spider guarding a hospital's host, she and BHop very swiftly clocked each other as technomancers, and agreed to talk after they were no longer each others' opfor. During [[Budding Heavenseeker]], she reveals to Bunny Hop her [[The Name of Heaven|quest for Heaven]], and through it, Garden. Bunny Hop thinks of her as capricious and largely unreliable, though as a fellow technomancer, she longs for the two of them to nonetheless be friends. Her penchant for broken slivers of code and decaying hosts is probably nothing, too, she thinks. She hopes.
* [[Makali'i (Contact)]]: A former runner, and someone Bun is on favorable terms with. She helped her find her missing partner Wills in a facility deep under the OU that housed a rogue AI capturing technomancers. She thinks of Makali'i as strong and pure-hearted, and has earned Makali'i's appreciation and respect from their brief run together.
* [[Ace Powers]]: He doesn't even know who she is. Literally. She was in disguise as a Dawkins Group agent when they met and he gave her his business card during [[Into the Void]] - [[Fennec]] carried the conversation, but she can reap the benefits too, ne? It's probably going to be very funny if she ever has to actually call him for a favor.  


===Organizations and Reputation===
===Organizations and Reputation===
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|2
|2
|[[Hot Potato (Chips)]]
|[[Hot Potato (Chips)]]
|-
|[[Chulos]]
|10
|[[Hopquest]]
|-
|[[Church of Starry Wisdom]]
|2
|[[Into the Void]]
|-
|-
|[[Erika]]
|[[Erika]]
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|-
|[[People of the Orc Underground]]
|[[People of the Orc Underground]]
|2
|4
|[[Diggin']]
|[[Diggin']], [[Heartache]]
|-
|[[PepsiCo]]
|1
|[[Out of the Blue]]
|-
|-
|[[Skraacha]]
|[[Skraacha]]
|5
|5
|[[Diggin']]
|[[Diggin']]
|-
|[[Streets of Seattle]]
|5
|[[Heartache]]
|-
|-
|[[West Coast Monolith]]
|[[West Coast Monolith]]
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| -5
| -5
|[[Third-Story Malpractice]]
|[[Third-Story Malpractice]]
|-
|[[Hell's Angels]]
| -10
|[[Out of the Blue]]
|-
|-
|[[High Society]]
|[[High Society]]
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|[[Building on Biometrics]], [[Tying A Yoke to Yamada]]
|[[Building on Biometrics]], [[Tying A Yoke to Yamada]]
|BHop has a sort of split reputation with the Kenran-kai. Unless they make the connection between the two, the Bunny Hop that attacked the Kenran-kai during [[Building on Biometrics]] is a different, unrelated person to the Koichi Kurosawa who made a positive impression at the yakuza gathering in [[Tying a Yoke to Yamada]], even though both are her "true" identities.
|BHop has a sort of split reputation with the Kenran-kai. Unless they make the connection between the two, the Bunny Hop that attacked the Kenran-kai during [[Building on Biometrics]] is a different, unrelated person to the Koichi Kurosawa who made a positive impression at the yakuza gathering in [[Tying a Yoke to Yamada]], even though both are her "true" identities.
|-
|[[Shotozumi-gumi]]
| -9
|[[Heartache]]
|BHop has a sort of split reputation with the Shotozumi-gumi. Unless they make the connection between the two, the Bunny Hop that assisted in the attack on a Shotozumi-gumi bunraku parlor in [[Heartache]] is a different, unrelated person to the Koichi Kurosawa who made a positive impression at the yakuza gathering in [[Tying a Yoke to Yamada]], even though both are her "true" identities.
|-
|-
|[[Yellow Lotus Triad]]
|[[Yellow Lotus Triad]]
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====Street Cred====
====Street Cred====
* [[Little Rat, Big Hole]]
* [[Little Rat, Big Hole]]
* [[Hopquest]]


====Notoriety====
====Notoriety====
* N/A
====Public Awareness====
* N/A
* N/A


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==Symbols and Signatures==
==Symbols and Signatures==
Rabbits, bunnies, and hares. Her Matrix MARK is a cutesy rabbit face in the Sanrio, "Hello Kitty" style.


==Matrix Search Table==
==Matrix Search Table==
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|LowResult=Junk: "Bunny hopping (bhopping) is an advanced movement technique used in some varieties of pre-Matrix first person shooters. To perform a bunny hop..."
|LowResult=Junk: "Bunny hopping (bhopping) is an advanced movement technique used in some varieties of pre-Matrix first person shooters. To perform a bunny hop..."


Bunny Hop keeps a low profile online, for the most part. Some known aliases are BHop, Bun, and Hops. She's had some good results in amateur leagues for Shadowrun Online and Road Fighter as recently as three years ago, but seems to have dropped completely off from the competitive circuit since then. She has public accounts on anime and game discussion sites, as well as cooking forums, art discussion groups, and others, all with relatively sparse public post histories.  
Bunny Hop keeps a low profile online, for the most part. Some known aliases are BHop, Bun, and Hops. She's had some good results in amateur leagues for Shadowrun Online and Road Fighter as recently as four years ago, but seems to have dropped completely off from the competitive circuit since then. She has public accounts on anime and game discussion sites, as well as cooking forums, art discussion groups, and others, all with relatively sparse public post histories.  
|MidResult=Some details begin to add up in seedier parts of the web - common elements from her more public and innocuous profiles can be pieced together, giving a probable link between them and some Matrix vandal going by a variety of ascii rabbit emojis. Examples include: ₍ᐢ. .ᐢ₎, ໒꒰ྀི´ ˘ ` ꒱ྀིა, ૮₍ ´• ˕ •` ₎ა, and others. The bunny face vandal has been inactive for several years, however, and has not made a marked impact on either commonly shared blacklists or in other decker circles. Descriptions matching Bunny Hop's red rabbit persona have been noted in a few places they probably shouldn't be.
|MidResult=Some details begin to add up in seedier parts of the web - common elements from her more public and innocuous profiles can be pieced together, giving a probable link between them and some Matrix vandal going by a variety of ascii rabbit emojis. Examples include: ₍ᐢ. .ᐢ₎, ໒꒰ྀི´ ˘ ` ꒱ྀིა, ૮₍ ´• ˕ •` ₎ა, and others. The bunny face vandal has been inactive for several years, however, and has not made a marked impact on either commonly shared blacklists or in other decker circles. Descriptions matching Bunny Hop's red rabbit persona have been noted in a few places they probably shouldn't be.
|HighResult=A name appears, associated with the bunny face vandal: Akiha. Those few who are familiar with the bunny face vandal's techniques and MO remember her taking a peculiar approach to decking, one that was indirect and seemed to flow with the Matrix rather than imposing upon it, like a digital Aikido. She spoke briefly of spirits in the wire. Disturbingly, some unrelated deckers in unrelated incidents have reported similar techniques used by a Yakuza spider in recent months, a nameless and textureless silhouette of an oni, appearing as negative space, like a hole cut into the Matrix.  
|HighResult=A name appears, associated with the bunny face vandal: Akiha. Those few who are familiar with the bunny face vandal's techniques and MO remember her taking a peculiar approach to decking, one that was indirect and seemed to flow with the Matrix rather than imposing upon it, like a digital Aikido. She spoke briefly of spirits in the wire. Disturbingly, some unrelated deckers in unrelated incidents have reported similar techniques used by a Yakuza spider in recent months, a nameless and textureless silhouette of an oni, appearing as negative space, like a hole cut into the Matrix.  
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{{SearchTable|
{{SearchTable|
|LowThreshold=1
|LowThreshold=1
|LowResult="Bunny Hop? She's a decker, right?"
|LowResult="Solid decker, apparently. Has a whole cutesy-bunny-girl thing going on the Matrix."
|MidThreshold=3
|MidThreshold=3
|MidResult="You know, come to think of it, there was that bunny face vandal a few years back too. Cheap way to pwn a smalltime host. Did decent work but the other deckers seemed to think her style was real weird. Seems to match up with her current work - think they might be the same person?"
|MidResult="Yeah, I've heard of her. One of the hotter names on the Matrix right now, not so good anywhere else. Works well enough in a team though, and she's better at ghosting a host dive than most hackers, most of the time. I've heard some rumors she's a virtual kinetic, but any hacker worth anything has drek like that circulating around."
 
|HighThreshold=5`
Update: "If they are, she's really upped her game. She's got a solid track record over the last few months. I hear she even did an op with Wychking at some point."  
|HighResult="So, apparently, those VK rumors have a little more meat to them than usual - she's slipped up more than once and talked about the 'soul of the Matrix' or some bullshit, and apparently has some signatures sitting on file in a triple-A or two. And you didn't hear this from me, but I got a good inside line that she's moonlighting for the Yaks as some hotshot spider too. Put the pieces together, and she's definitely two-timing somebody. I'd stay away, it's gonna blow up in her face sooner than later."
|HighThreshold=5
|HighResult="Actually, this just occurred to me - and this is ''strictly'' between you and me - some of the Yak hosts have been harder to hit on the Matrix lately. New spider or somethin'. Some of the cowboys seem to think they're not using your standard hardware or running some new IC or something weird like that - I wonder if she was closer to whatever that guy's doing now."
 
Update: "Some whispers crawling down the grapevine kinda suggest they might be the same after all. If they are, she's definitely double-crossing the yaks. The [[Kenran-kai]] especially are pissed. I'd be a lot more careful going forward if I were her."  
}}
}}


==Assensing Table==
==Assensing Table==
Bunny Hop's aura peels away from her in wispy, vaporous strands, easily visible like steam on a cold day, though chilled as a shell of frigid, stagnant air. Close to her body, the shell suddenly breaks, and she radiates a sweet warmth, scented like Spring. The fuzzy, shadowed silhouette of two rabbit ears rest on top of her head. Gentle whispers surround her - on five hits, the assenser can just make out that the whispers seem to be reciting blocks of raw assembly code.
Bunny Hop's aura peels away from her in thick, vaporous strands, easily visible like steam on a cold day, though chilled as a shell of frigid, stagnant air. Close to her body, the shell suddenly breaks, and she radiates a sweet warmth, scented like Spring, with the texture of rabbit down and fluff. The fuzzy, shadowed silhouette of two rabbit ears rest on top of her head. Gentle whispers surround her - on five hits, the assenser can just make out that the whispers seem to be reciting blocks of raw assembly code.


{{AssensingTable|
{{AssensingTable|
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|Result3=Bun appears to have no alphaware, and an untouched Essence.
|Result3=Bun appears to have no alphaware, and an untouched Essence.
|Result4=Bun appears to have no bioware or betaware. Essence 6, Magic N/A, Force N/A
|Result4=Bun appears to have no bioware or betaware. Essence 6, Magic N/A, Force N/A
|Result5=Bun appears to have no deltaware, gene treatments, or nanotech. No chronic illness seems to afflict her physically. She is a technomancer.  
|Result5=Bun appears to have no deltaware, gene treatments, or nanotech. No chronic illness seems to afflict her physically. She is a technomancer. The slightest distortion in her aura lingers like clouds on the horizon - she is a trans-woman, and has not yet had biosculpting treatments done to align her body and soul. (Detailed in Chrome Flesh pg. 136).
}}
}}


==SINs==
==SINs==
'''Yuuki Love (Fake Rating 4, UCAS)'''
*Private Investigator
** Fake Firearms License (Rating 4)
** Fake Cyberdeck License (Rating 4)
** Fake Private Investigator's License (Rating 4)


'''Yuuji Akasaka (Fake Rating 4, UCAS)'''
'''Yuuji Akasaka (Fake Rating 4, UCAS)'''
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==Appearance==
==Appearance==
On the meat, BHop is short and lean for a boy at only 5'8", but gargantuan for a woman, which she's of course very self-conscious of. Her dark hair curls softly around her face, framing it well and lending it a round femininity, even as her shoulders flare on the masculine side of androgynous. She is pale, leaning more closely to her American heritage than her Japanese. Her dark eyes bounce between the bratty mischief she tries to play up online and the riptide of dull, bitter fury that swirls underneath. Overall, she is a woman of opposites struggling to reconcile.  
On the meat, BHop is short and lean for a boy at only 5'8", but above average for a woman, which she's of course very self-conscious of. Her dark hair curls softly around her face, framing it well and lending it a round femininity, even as her shoulders flare on the masculine side of androgynous. She is pale, leaning more closely to her American heritage than her Japanese. Her dark eyes bounce between the bratty mischief she tries to play up online and the riptide of dull, bitter fury that swirls underneath. Overall, she is a woman of opposites struggling to reconcile.  


On the impossible occasion Bun can be made to undress, a myriad of scars, those caused by burns and those caused by blades, mar her entire body, her torso especially. On her back, in the ''ukiyo-e'' style, a large tattoo of a ''torii'' gate spans from shoulder to shoulder - an eastern dragon of a deep violet color passes through and coils around her spine. Touches of blue bioluminescence glow within its eyes and beneath its scales.  
On the impossible occasion Bun can be made to undress, a myriad of scars, those caused by burns and those caused by blades, mar her entire body, her torso especially. On her back, in the ''ukiyo-e'' style, a large tattoo of a ''torii'' gate spans from shoulder to shoulder - an eastern dragon of a deep violet color passes through and coils around her spine. Touches of blue bioluminescence glow within its eyes and beneath its scales.  
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When operating her unique persona on runs, as she moves swiftly, red feathers fall in her wake, apparently spawned from nothing. Subtle scents of spring follow her. Smoldering white moons the size of her fist orbit her in a perfect circle, as though a shield she can command at will.  
When operating her unique persona on runs, as she moves swiftly, red feathers fall in her wake, apparently spawned from nothing. Subtle scents of spring follow her. Smoldering white moons the size of her fist orbit her in a perfect circle, as though a shield she can command at will.  


In combat, she may unsheathe a blinding crescent moon for as a katana's blade, its hilt wrapped in ''ofuda''. A small, red rabbit charm keychain dangles from the handle.  
In combat, she may unsheathe a blinding crescent moon as a katana's blade, its hilt wrapped in ''ofuda''. A small, red rabbit charm keychain dangles from the handle. Her MARK is a cutesy rabbit-face sticker in the Sanrio/"Hello Kitty" style.


In rarer moments, when her guard is down, she may even dress down. She holds in reserve a lovingly crafted render of herself, her real body, edited only far enough to become what it always should have been. This persona is only ever shown to those she trusts.  
In rarer moments, when her guard is down, she may even dress down. She holds in reserve a lovingly crafted render of herself, her real body, edited only far enough to become what it always should have been. This persona is only ever shown to those she trusts.  


When doing Yak work, she limits herself. A simple, textureless mesh with only the silhouette of an ''oni'' to give it shape are all she needs to please the Kanaga-gumi and disguise herself from the other side of her work.
When doing Yak work, she limits herself. A simple, textureless mesh with only the silhouette of an ''oni'' to give it shape are all she needs to please the Kanaga-gumi and disguise herself from the other side of her work.
====Foundation Anchors====
[[Memitim's Tomb|The Tomb of the Heavenly Host]] (R9) - A rabbit shaped formation in the moon when looking through the telescope of the Portal node.<br>
[[Better Living Through Chemistry|AG Chemie HQ]] (R?) - An Easter egg stuffed into the rafters of the cargo hold of the wooden ship that is the Portal node.<br>


===Tokens===
===Tokens===
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Latest revision as of 21:13, 20 November 2024

Bunny Hop
BHop.png
Techno Hacker
Tool of the Kanaga-gumi, Proud Black Hat
Self-Proclaimed Cyberpriestess and 世界一かわいいハッカーです～
Discord@jit
Redditjit_SR5
MetatypeHuman
Street Cred43
Notoriety0
Public Awareness0
CDP94
D.O.B.March 03, 2064
Age21
FolderBHop's Archive Node
PriorityMetatype - D
Attributes - B
Resonance - A
Skills - C
Resources - E
Submersion Grade7
Theme Songanybody can find love (except you) - hkmori


Character Information

Summary

"天のストーリーライター

最後
その手で
愛をそのペンで最後------ "
-----
"Ten no STORYWRITER
saigo
sono te de
ai wo sono pen de saigo------ "
-----
"Heaven's Story Writer,
at last,
by your hand.
Finally, by your pen, love..."

"STORYWRITER" - SUPERCAR

Goals

  • A Secure Identity Unknown to and Unexploited by the Yakuza
    • As of Graduation Day, she has her R6 SIN, one that she hopes to keep squeaky clean.
  • The Professional Downfall and (Probably) Death of Her Father, Takashi Kurosawa
    • Subsequently, Escape From the Grip of the Kanaga-gumi Yakuza Clan
  • Explore the Resonance Realms, and Become Attuned with Other Technomancers and the Deep Resonance
  • Extend a Hand to Caliban, and Bring Her Somewhere Safe, and Warm, and Quiet
  • Fight to Protect Fennec's Life, and Do Better Than Last Time
  • Find Out If Akiha Kurosawa is Actually Worth Loving
  • Continue to Hone Her Hacking Skills

Background

Summary

The "son" (trans-daughter) of the Kanaga-gumi's shategashira, head of enforcement and clan soldiers. She emerged as a child after the murder of her mother at the hands of Halloweeners, and when she was not being forced to do work for the Yakuza afterward, she largely dissociated on the Matrix, where she came to understand it as a great tsukumogami, the kami that come alive when tools are used for one hundred years (give or take).

After an unfortunate reveal of her abilities during a botched assassination on her father, he now has her disowned and under his thumb. Under threat of death or MCT extraction, she must work for the Kanaga-gumi, and help her father find out who placed a hit on him, and why. With goals of her own, a hatred for her father, and the yearning for freedom, she lives a second life in the shadows, where she accumulates resources and allies for her eventual escape.

Her History

Though she is not dead, Akiha Kurosawa's life ended when she was seven years old. Though her mother is not alive, she yet lives in every moment, each time she is recorded, rewound, and replayed while burning to death. The phrase "Better Than Life" seems in every replay a cruel joke.

During an apparently innocuous trip to downtown Seattle, suspiciously scrupulous Halloweeners run a bit of cord along a narrow road and pull it tight to bring a young mother and her oldest child skidding to the ground. She screams and reaches for a side-arm she didn't dare try to sneak through the SIN scanners, and she is beaten bloody for her effort. With a ragged voice, she only begs that they not take her child, and for a mercy uncommon among their brutal ranks, they do not.

Akiha, already half-emerged, cries as her mother is dragged into the murky underground of a gutter, and when she is dry of tears and flat in a hospital bed, she dissociates, falls out of her body, and never quite returns. The sprites of the Matrix chirp as her young persona is born.

Her father is little comfort, a rising star of the grievously Old School Kanaga-gumi and more preoccupied with his work than his children, no matter his lip service. He tells her, his oldest son, that Koichi Kurosawa is his first-born and his lineage, and that one-day his lineage will follow his footsteps into the Yakuza as his pride. She is eight-years old, and has no strength to deny the only love she might have left. She abandons even the thought of telling him she is his daughter, and will painfully choose to deny she'd ever thought so for several more years to come.

Not long into a pubescence that is to her horrific, he grooms her to fight and withstand pain, when he can manage to find her awake. She is made to hold blades and fire weapons and be burned with cigarettes and hot shells that leave her skin pink over a decade later. She is made to fist-fight her brother, and where he revels in violence and the call of duty, she crumbles. She is made to bleed, and though she is told this makes her strong, she can only remember the hurt.

But more often, she is asleep, or staring blankly at walls. Sometimes she leaves her body and lets it crumble like warm laundry onto the ground, and days later awakens dehydrated and starving and alive and wishing she were not. She wears no trodes, no patch, and doctors can find nothing wrong to explain her fainting spells. They shrug their shoulders and call it PTSD.

Her father remarries a properly Japanese woman, Sato Kanaga's niece, and the oyabun is pleased. Eventually, he abandons Akiha's training, and leaves her, as a stick-like corpse in its gentle repose, to slowly rot.

But every moment asleep is a moment alive in another world. Her childish persona emerges and teases at threads and strings tying hosts to level Earth. She befriends the little creatures that find her, and finds that they are unspeakable to many of those around her. She is mocked for insisting she sees kami in the newly formed Matrix, and called a liar at best. She gradually realizes that she is a child alone with the world. The rabbit-like sprites she has found as friends and family comfort her.

By the time she eventually falls in with other 'trode children, she has been long since taught to speak nothing of the blood and beating heart of the Matrix thumping alongside her own. She imagines herself as a shrine maiden, she imagines herself with family, and she imagines her true self special and loved and chosen - and falls numb to keep from crying whenever she awakens to the meat.

Her teens are spent online. Her body atrophies from disuse, save for those few moments she blankly plays gopher to the Kanaga-gumi, or performs even worse crimes for their sake, or rides her mother's Scoot to try and anchor her fleeting memory in something real. Takashi Kurosawa, now close family to the oyabun, climbs to the rank of shategashira, and they move into nicer, more traditional Japanese homes, and indulge in ever-nicer Japanese dinners, and she experiences all of it only as a bad dream.

She hacks because she loves to craft the forms that change the forms around her, and because to forge a shim of just the right shape to slip between the seams of otherwise flawless code brings her joy, and because it is a sign of love for the only things that have loved her in return. She learns more complex forms of hacking, and feels that this brings her closer to the soul of the world, though she also learns the word "technomancer" and all the stigma it brings. She's relieved, nonetheless, to know that she is not uniquely absurd.

She sleazes slushies off of Stuffer Shacks and trids off of Horizon hosts. She changes her icon to a pretty girl so she can catfish boys out of passwords and in-game gold, and embarrassingly finds she does not want to change herself back. She dives into foundations, ill-advised, and though there are hiccups and horrors and might-have-been-friends who never log in again, crises of conscience and trying on white hats that never quite fit, she always returns to her love.

Throughout it all, Akiha is, at her core, alone but for the sprites at her side. She childishly wonders for far longer than she should when others like her might come to bring her to her real life.

Her Real Life

On the second Monday of January 2084, Akiha, her siblings, her step-mother, and her father wander Downtown Seattle's annual seijin no hi festivities to celebrate her upcoming twentieth birthday. While her father discusses plans for a visit to Japan for her younger brother's, she counts the myriad hosts and device icons like stars in the sky, and idly shapes the blocks of code that would peel away each unique Firewall were she to send it their way.

Her dull eyes halt, however, on a half-dozen smartlinked machine pistols running silent. Their hidden personas linger around corners and push into cover. Each are marked by a faintly visible trail of footprints back to a horrific oni standing menacingly atop a host, and with dawning realization and horror, she understands that their maneuvers are not those of bodyguards, but of assassins.

Her dull eyes hastily become sharp. Her persona, eyes identical, rises from her body and carefully treads behind the oni, close enough to snoop on their traffic.

"[Harsh to do it with his family around.]"

"[He's a demon. He'll respect the play when he's in Hell.]"

"[Hold firm. Kurosawa's a demon for a reason, middle-age hasn't changed that. We wait for the best possible shot.]"

Her little half-sister grins and munches on candy, and Akiha cannot bear to let her experience watching a dear parent die. Nor does she yet hate her father harshly enough to wish for his death on such gruesome terms.

To her family, Akiha feigns interest in a mural in the ukiyo-e style a block or two back. She asks her father to come with her, to take her picture, and while her lips awkwardly stumble across her words, her persona mutters well-practiced norito to cleanse the space, zero-out code, and make it clean for a fresh compilation. She will need help from her Matrix siblings.

Half-amused, he follows her, and tells the rest to wait for them in a public space, and as they part, she transforms before his eyes.

"[There are six, plus a Matrix presence,]" she announces to her father as he cocks a suspicious eyebrow. "[Smartlinked Ingram machine pistols.]"

He glares at her incredulously.

"[I'm disabling as many as I can, but they're already moving. They'll be on us as soon as we turn into the alley.]"

"[You're talking like you're a decker or something. You don't even have a dongle, Koichi.]"

A bright, white rabbit, luminescent like the moon, twirls into being in AR. Akiha bites her tongue. As predicted, the moment she and her steadily darkening father find themselves in front of the mural, either end of the little alley is eclipsed by three wide bodies, weapons sharp and drawn.

Her persona extends a lonesome finger gun, winks, and fires a beam bright and wide as moonlight. One of the raised smartguns sizzles and pops in the Yakuza's hands, and he yelps a shocked and vulgar curse - the other two, similarly, raise their guns and hold their triggers, but find each of them jammed, and after a quick dip into AR, discover each of their gun's icons being mercilessly hammered by a rabbit with a mochi mallet.

Gunshots deafen them from behind - Akiha winces and glances sharply over her shoulder, but finds her father already there, cyberlimbs cranked and whirring and slamming the yakuza into newly formed yakuza-shaped craters in the mural. He eats shots point blank, and he bleeds, though they come away flattened like coins clattering on the asphalt below. In an alley so narrow, he has no trouble snapping forward and snatching a wrist to wrench the pistol away from one of them before pouring the entire magazine, mercilessly full auto, into his chest.

Akiha blanches. Though horrified, this is not her first time seeing the Demon of Kanaga fight.

The other three, disarmed save for hidden blades in their coats, hesitate. Though bound by honor, reason keeps a firm grip in that eternal fight between ninjoo and giri.

"[His son!]" A careful chatlogger on the opfor decker's device pings his message through to her as well. "[Take him hostage!]"

The man on the left tightly clenches his knife, and with a burst of resolve, sprints ahead, tip thrust forward, screaming. She frantically shouts a norito, threads a complex form of program, and begs the Resonance to flow, rich and full, through the channels she carves.

Spring water wells from the Source.

In imagelinked contacts, Akiha disappears. Each device, bidden by the power beneath power that flows through them all, intelligently selects and deletes her image from their feed. The charging man, now only yards away, stumbles and grinds to a swift halt in the asphalt.

"[Is his kid a mage!?]"

"[Kurosawa's been keeping that one under his hat-]"

"[Get out,]" the decker screams in AR. "[That's enough - we have footage, if we show the oyabun his kid's a mage, he'll have them both killed, problem solved.]"

His DNI is interrupted by another pour of molten lead into a poor Yakuza's chest. Takashi Kurosawa throws the empty smart pistol to the side.

The remaining two run. Takashi Kurosawa blurs into angry streaks of chrome and scrapes of steel. They do not live to see the end of the alley. He takes their guns off the ground, and each of the six times he pops their fallen heads like bubblewrap, she winces, and dulls, and becomes a little more distant.

Until, at last, he faces her, though she cannot face him.

"[You're bleeding,]" he tells her simply. Warm droplets trickle from her nose and glide across her lips to fall onto her clothes. Her sprite flits back into sight and settles onto her shoulders, where her living persona stands overlaid with her flesh. She says nothing.

He slaps her.

"[Son of a bitch, you're a] toaster fucker."

Her eyes shatter like glass. Akiha becomes a scope on a rifle, clear and sharp and hostile, though distant and anywhere but here, all at once. She glares defiantly to the side, still unable to meet his eyes, and mumbles.

"Your English still needs work, otou-san. It's pronounced, 'Thank you for saving my life, kid. I'm really grateful.'"

He flushes with rage and takes an aggressive step forward - she stumbles into the wall, back first, and must lift her chin as he tightly grips her, one around her wrist, one around her neck. She hacks - coughs, this time, not comms.

"You little rat, hiding this from me? You're no son of mine. It would've been better if you'd died just now and saved me the embarrassment."

Akiha wheezes for breath. Her boyish hands grip futilely at his wrist, begging for release. Her kneels curl and feet shove against the wall behind.

Akiha always knew this is how the reveal would go. Her living persona rises from her future corpse. She dissociates, almost. She wants to see the emerald sky and its galaxy of hosts as she goes, and to hold her dear sprites close to her chest while she does.

"Your daughter...!" Her body rasps - and he, in shock, releases her.

"[What?]"

Life floods her lungs. She doubles over gasping for breath, knees and palms flat on the Earth, and sucks two or three greedy breaths before speaking.

"I'm not your son, I'm your daughter, dad!" She spits, cringing at her own voice as it cracks. Her fists curl into impotent little balls. The soft bits of her palms bleed against the rough bits of the asphalt. Blood blends with snot and saliva as each drip freely onto the pavement. Her eyes, too, bleed salty tears to join them.

"I'm not just a technomancer, I'm your daughter. I'm a girl. I've always been. Or wanted to be." And though she glares, a sliver of weakness slips through her lips.

"Please, dad..."

A mote of the child she was still wants an awful man's love. She shivers, and swallows several quiet and desperate sobs. Distant sirens close in on the sound of gunshots - spotting their icons on the grid, she estimates only two to three more minutes before they clue in on the source.

A still-warm barrel presses roughly against the back of her bowed head. Kurosawa's voice simmers with obvious rage.

"[Sure. You obviously don't want to be my son, Koichi. And never in a million years will you be my daughter - between this and the toaster shit, you must be mentally ill. And since I'm not some limp-dicked New Way bleeding heart, I guess you're just a disappointment.]"

"[You've got a choice, Koichi. If you want to be some Matrix degenerate fucking men and toasters, then you should rot like one. I'll call up some contacts right now, you'll be in a Zero Zone by tonight, they'd love another freak like you on the operating table. Or you can kill yourself and die with a little dignity - I've got a tanto right here. Or maybe...]"

The barrel slowly peels away. Those are empty threats - she thinks. She hopes.

"[We sweep this under the rug. You pretend to be my loyal and mundane son, like you're supposed to be, even though we both know the truth.]"

He kneels, grips her hair, and roughly tugs her up to meet his gaze. Tears and spit and blood stream down her bright red face, though she glares daggers and data spikes and molten lead into his eyes. She hates him. She has never wanted to, but she always has, and it's only now that she finally, without restraint, lets the intensity of that emotion overwhelm her. Kurosawa's gruff expression, so dark, so openly disgusted, twinkles faintly with pride.

"[What, you've got fight in you after all? All these years and it's the first time I'm seeing it. Take a swing then, if you want my respect. But if you really want to live, Koichi,]" and he yanks up her head by the roots of her hair, and she cries out in pain. "[Tell me where the other one is. The Matrix presence. You can find him, right? With your weird little brain?]"

She sells them out, knowing it is their death. Only a block away, East. Rapidly descending. Leaving a building, she guesses. Kurosawa lets her drop to the ground.

"[Get up. Wash up in a bathroom. Go back to your step-mom. Say nothing. And Koichi, if you ever even think about running away or saying a single word of what you told me just now? I swear, I'll move the entire clan to find you.]"

"Hai."

"[I'll make some calls and spin the story of what happened here. Little Tokyo pawns should be on our payroll already. And you and I will talk tonight.]"

"Hai."

He blurs, vaporizes, disappears in a chunky sprint. Akiha rises unsteadily to her feet and wipes her tears on her sleeve. The six corpses surrounding her offer no comfort.

She'll find a public restroom. She'll clean up, regroup, and say nothing, just as the demon says to.

And then that night, on the Matrix and well away from any of their prying eyes, she'll ring a certain commcode.

If she is going to escape, she will need all the help she can get.

Narrative Significant Qualities

Positive

  • Haafu - (Bilingual) - Akiha is a Japanese-American child of two cultures. Though her feelings on her Japanese side are mixed, she embraces the positive aspects of her heritage more often than not.
  • Matrix Native - (Instinctive Hack | One With the Matrix | Hi-Rez | Etc.) - As a Technomancer from a young age, and with a past of dissociation from meatspace, the Matrix is intimately entangled with BHop's brain structure and way of thought. Far from being a first resort, it is often the only one in her head.
  • Cyberpriestess - (Technomancer | Resonance Stream: Sourceror | Paragon: Delphi [The Oracle]) - The Deep Resonance is one of the great kami, the broader spirit of the Matrix come to life, its ubiquitous tsukumogami, and the soul of the digital world. Commune, attune, and respect, and it will embrace its resonant children. So she believes, anyway.
  • Information Professional - (Analytical Mind | Speed Reading | Brilliant Heuristics) - She's had a lot of practice needing to read through files and metadata very quickly in order to safely do her job. She's picked up a knack for seeing patterns in these things by now.
  • One of a Kind - (Unique Avatar) - After an eye-opening experience with a physical mask spell of her persona(Hot Potato (Chips)), she's managed to build an unbelievably realistic Version 2.0 of the Bunny Hop branded Matrix presence! After some frank discussions and solid performance on the job, she's started to garner a small reputation in the shadows.

Negative

  • Socially Awkward - (Basement Dweller | Social Appearance Anxiety 1 [Gender Dysphoria]) - Akiha has spent the vast majority of her life online, and still finds it difficult to properly express herself in real life. Couple this with the sensitive girl looking boyish at best, and she struggles even at the best of times. (Androgyny skirts by without penalty in the case of SAA - baggie hoodies, face masks, and other mitigating options lend her enough comfort to keep her focus).
  • The Truth Will Set You Free - Driven (Downfall of Father) - Though it used to be about survival, as she accumulates more resources and digs deeper into the truth behind the death of her mother, her vendetta against Takashi Kurosawa has become less about self-preservation and more about finding answers. When her business is done, she can call on her resources and quit the gumi for good. She hopes.
  • Stuck in the Past - (Emotional Attachment [Dodge Scoot (Haruko-chan)] | Phobia [Uncommon, Moderate] [Clowns/Halloweeners]) - She holds onto her mom's memory however she can. Alexandra Robins' old Dodge Scoot, for a mechanically minded young woman, seems an ideal memorial, and the trauma of watching her mother shot and dragged away screaming has left Akiha a raw nerve when it comes to less kind reminders of that day.
  • Wanted by Null Sect - (Data Hog) - After the events of Encroaching Viscosity, the xenosapient AI hive known as Null Sect has her number. They follow her into the corners of the Matrix, and trace her code however they can. (This quality manifests mechanically as the Data Hog quality from Kill Code page 99.)

Run History

NameGMMetaplotThreatDate of Run
HopquestLHOGExtreme7 August 2085
Into the VoidSarcarianDeadly25 July 2085
Not Onotari's armsBulldogcExtreme19 July 2085
HeartacheOrionRequiemDeadly22 June 2085
Better Living Through ChemistrySarcarianDeadly22 June 2085
Out of the BlueSarcarianHigh17 June 2085
Family BusinessOrionExtreme1 May 2085
Front Point & CenterAsmodeusHigh24 April 2085
Invasive SpeciesSleeveyLa Famille Du PeintreMedium11 April 2085
Gojira Drinks Bleach and Fucking DiesAsmodeusDeadly6 April 2085
Dusk's MessengerLemonMedium24 March 2085
Memitim's TombSleeveyDead Gods Stir
The Name of Heaven		Escalated to Extreme10 March 2085
Runnin' from the Dock of the BayLHOGMedium27 February 2085
Graduation DayAsmodeusHigh13 February 2085
Budding HeavenseekerSleeveyThe Name of HeavenMilkrun26 January 2085
Third-Story MalpracticeSleeveyLa Famille Du PeintreHigh11 January 2085
Encroaching ViscosityAsmodeusHigh8 January 2085
Guerilla GangoonsAsmodeusThe ArrivalHigh3 January 2085
Party BalloonSyphilenHigh29 December 2084
Ash ReplevinSleeveyLa Famille Du PeintreDeadly27 December 2084
Hot Potato (Chips)Sample Text9 December 2084
Matrix MedicineLotusMedium8 December 2084
Tying A Yoke to YamadaLHOGHigh30 November 2084
Jumping Jimmy GLHOGHigh29 November 2084
Go big, go loud, or go home!TidanShockThe Life and Times of One Kevin CrimesExtreme18 November 2084
Diggin'Fangblade_High15 November 2084
Knock KnockAsmodeusSwarming SeasonDeadly10 November 2084
Move Ahead, Lay Down Dead, or Slip on ByFangblade_Sign of ZetaHigh8 November 2084
BANGYOURHEAD+55Fangblade_High2 November 2084
Little Rat, Big HoleLHOGHigh29 October 2084
DuvetFangblade_And Love You Shall Find
The Light Before We Land		Deadly24 October 2084
Fort DumbassFangblade_And Love You Shall Find20 October 2084
Our Fellow Sorcerer's Corpses Part 1Fangblade_Deadly16 October 2084
Falling Dusk, Part 2 (Midnight)Açai.0Low15 October 2084
Falling Dusk, Part 1Açai.0Low8 October 2084
Building on BiometricsLHOGHigh1 October 2084
As Goes LightFangblade_When the hunters came to town
And Love You Shall Find		30 September 2084
10 Byte CrooksLHOGLow27 September 2084

Affiliations

Contacts

Contact Connection Loyalty Archetype Profession Aspects Chips
Anhe 3 5 Fixer(K,N,G,A) Matrix Information Specialist and Fixer Detached, Lore Hunter, Chronically Online, Shadowrunning, "Oh? Tell me more.", Information Specialist, Fact vs. Fiction, AI "Ally", Protosapients and Technocritters, Digitization and Archival Even
Takashi Kurosawa 4 2 Custom (A,G,N,K) Shategashira of the Kanaga-gumi Cyberware, Automatic Firearms, Handguns, Long Arms, Blades, Don't Talk Back, Yakkity Yak Even
Re:Gulus 3 2 Fixer Clocktower Leader Aspiring Leader, Magician, Magical Theorist, University Degree, Astral reconnaissance, It's Always a Game Even
Skinshedder 4 3 Service Free Sprite Sprite Fragile, Skinshedder, Matrix Denizen, Favored Gremlin, Loyal Friend, Untiring Even
WRN3 4 4 Service Feedback Seer Technomancer, Matrix Search, Electronics Hardware, Reticent, Hosts, Infected Sympathizer, Vision through the feedback Even
Alias 5 2 Gear SIN Forger SIN Forger, Police Contacts, Disguise Enthusiast, Hacker, Infiltrator, College Educated Even
Taina Kauhava 5 1 Gear
Corporate Loyalist, Accessory Maniac, Corporate Roots, Matrix Expertise, Software Engineer, Personal Assistant, Backroom Nokia Consultation, Personal E-Security Even
Greg 3 1 Fixer Skraacha Gumshoe Skraacha, Ork Underground, Gumshoe, Drugs, Ex Renraku Neo-PD, Orc Family Man Even
Jackie Jack 5 1 Generalist
Retired Prime Runner and Therapist
Example Positive Aspect, The big leagues, Stick it to them, In the shadows, Gonna need something bigger, Don't sell your soul kid., History best left forgotten Even
EN-Z-0 Contact Not Found. Please create contact using Template:Contact. 5 You may also see User:Free Sprite for bot instructions. Even
Kakei Steve 6 1 Fixer Fixer Lawyer, Legal Connections, I Know Many Things, Weeb Swordsfan, Yakuza Networker, Deltaware Dealer, I Know The Best Cyberware Even
Leonard MacLainn 3 1 Custom(K,N,G,A) Legwork and Information Financial Instability, Cursory Examination, Do You Know Who I Work For!, Time is ... time?, Spirit Wrangler, Small Fry Even
The Girl in Many Colors 3 4 Service Technomancer Color Coded, Matrix-Bound, Spinning Along the Color Wheel, f3f6f4, 701ac2, 000000, 97a3a9, 1787dc -1
Angélica Cabral 4 1 Fixer For The Cause: OHK, Unbending Morals, Trying Times, Hang on, I've Heard of Them, Oh, I've heard of Them!, A SURGE of Empathy, Breaking Cycles of Violence, Viewed from the Ground, Wide Awake, Striking Cycles of Violence, Still a Hospitaller, Blocking Cycles of Violence -2
Kousuke Yamada 4 2 Fixer Kanaga Kyodai Wife Guy, Word on the Street, Accomplished Businessman, Yak Attack, Shadow Assets Even
G01bez_and_0-MUS 2 4 Service Matrix Siblings

Decker and Technomancer Tag Team Duo

Overprotective, Technology Connections, Technomancer, Double Trouble, Sibling Synergy Even
Makali'i (Contact) 3 3 Service Detective Example Positive Aspect, Operating a Legitimate Business Even
C0nc0rd3 Contact Not Found. Please create contact using Template:Contact. 4 You may also see User:Free Sprite for bot instructions. Even
Ace Powers 6 1 Fixer Horizon Talent Agent Musical Talent, Corporate Deals, Keep it Classy, Fake SINs, Insider Knowledge, Horizon Agent, Hired Muscle Even
Amrei Veidt 6 2 Generalist S-K Prime Operative Actually a Spy, Deck Jockey, Delta Clinic Access, Former Shadowrunner, Information Broker, One Step Ahead, Prime Datahaven Membership, Saeder-Krupp Employee, Fresh off the Assembly Line Even
Corf 1 3 Service Helpful Lil' Minecart Rail-bound, Small, Living Transport, Underground, Wild Spirit, Smol Even
Miguel Frausto Contact Not Found. Please create contact using Template:Contact. 4 You may also see User:Free Sprite for bot instructions. Even


Relationships with NPCs

  • Anhe: Met her as a teenager during her hiatus from hacking to pursue Matrix Games. Anhe sees her a bit like a little sister to be protected, though trusts her skill and likes to rib her even still. Their relationship is softly antagonistic in the way siblings frequently are.
  • Takashi Kurosawa: Antagonistic, bluntly speaking. Takashi Kurosawa is using Bunny Hop for his own means, and as a way to rise within the ranks of the gumi and sus out his supposed enemies. Kurosawa is at present unaware that Bunny Hop is shadowrunning on the side, but has his suspicions. If discovered, he would likely burn her, and sell her out to MCT while hiding as much information from the Kanaga-gumi as possible, in order to avoid the familial shame.
  • Kousuke Yamada: As a fixer for the Kanaga-gumi when they are driven so deeply into a corner that they must rely on the shadows for support, Yamada had the resources necessary to clock Bunny Hop's true identity after the events of Tying a Yoke To Yamada. Rather than ratting her extracurricular activities out to the Kanaga-gumi, Yamada chose instead to steal Kurosawa's tool right out from under him. They are currently working in conjunction to find the evidence necessary to bring Kurosawa's past crimes to light, and to make defending him impossible even as the oyabun's favored pet enforcer.
  • The Girl in Many Colors: A fellow Heavenseeker - first encountered on Third-Story Malpractice as a freelance spider guarding a hospital's host, she and BHop very swiftly clocked each other as technomancers, and agreed to talk after they were no longer each others' opfor. During Budding Heavenseeker, she reveals to Bunny Hop her quest for Heaven, and through it, Garden. Bunny Hop thinks of her as capricious and largely unreliable, though as a fellow technomancer, she longs for the two of them to nonetheless be friends. Her penchant for broken slivers of code and decaying hosts is probably nothing, too, she thinks. She hopes.
  • Makali'i (Contact): A former runner, and someone Bun is on favorable terms with. She helped her find her missing partner Wills in a facility deep under the OU that housed a rogue AI capturing technomancers. She thinks of Makali'i as strong and pure-hearted, and has earned Makali'i's appreciation and respect from their brief run together.
  • Ace Powers: He doesn't even know who she is. Literally. She was in disguise as a Dawkins Group agent when they met and he gave her his business card during Into the Void - Fennec carried the conversation, but she can reap the benefits too, ne? It's probably going to be very funny if she ever has to actually call him for a favor.

Organizations and Reputation

Allies

Faction Reputation Related Run(s)
AllWire, Inc. 2 Hot Potato (Chips)
Chulos 10 Hopquest
Church of Starry Wisdom 2 Into the Void
Erika 1 Knock Knock
Farraday's Clinic (DEFUNCT) 5 As Goes Light
Finnigan Family 10 Building on Biometrics, BANGYOURHEAD+55
L.R. Foundation 5 Third-Story Malpractice
People of the Orc Underground 4 Diggin', Heartache
PepsiCo 1 Out of the Blue
Skraacha 5 Diggin'
Streets of Seattle 5 Heartache
West Coast Monolith 1 Guerilla Gangoons
All Yakuza Clans 1 Tying A Yoke to Yamada

Enemies

Faction Reputation Related Run(s) Note
Compulsory Execution Unit -10 As Goes Light
Cutters -5 Go big, go loud, or go home!
Greater Medical Community -5 Third-Story Malpractice
Hell's Angels -10 Out of the Blue
High Society -5 Ash Replevin
NTerLOK Production -2 Hot Potato (Chips)
Kenran-kai -4 Building on Biometrics, Tying A Yoke to Yamada BHop has a sort of split reputation with the Kenran-kai. Unless they make the connection between the two, the Bunny Hop that attacked the Kenran-kai during Building on Biometrics is a different, unrelated person to the Koichi Kurosawa who made a positive impression at the yakuza gathering in Tying a Yoke to Yamada, even though both are her "true" identities.
Shotozumi-gumi -9 Heartache BHop has a sort of split reputation with the Shotozumi-gumi. Unless they make the connection between the two, the Bunny Hop that assisted in the attack on a Shotozumi-gumi bunraku parlor in Heartache is a different, unrelated person to the Koichi Kurosawa who made a positive impression at the yakuza gathering in Tying a Yoke to Yamada, even though both are her "true" identities.
Yellow Lotus Triad -7 BANGYOURHEAD+55

Street Cred

Notoriety

  • N/A

Public Awareness

  • N/A

In Character Information

Symbols and Signatures

Rabbits, bunnies, and hares. Her Matrix MARK is a cutesy rabbit face in the Sanrio, "Hello Kitty" style.

Matrix Search Table

Threshold Result
1 Junk: "Bunny hopping (bhopping) is an advanced movement technique used in some varieties of pre-Matrix first person shooters. To perform a bunny hop..."

Bunny Hop keeps a low profile online, for the most part. Some known aliases are BHop, Bun, and Hops. She's had some good results in amateur leagues for Shadowrun Online and Road Fighter as recently as four years ago, but seems to have dropped completely off from the competitive circuit since then. She has public accounts on anime and game discussion sites, as well as cooking forums, art discussion groups, and others, all with relatively sparse public post histories.

3 Some details begin to add up in seedier parts of the web - common elements from her more public and innocuous profiles can be pieced together, giving a probable link between them and some Matrix vandal going by a variety of ascii rabbit emojis. Examples include: ₍ᐢ. .ᐢ₎, ໒꒰ྀི´ ˘ ` ꒱ྀིა, ૮₍ ´• ˕ •` ₎ა, and others. The bunny face vandal has been inactive for several years, however, and has not made a marked impact on either commonly shared blacklists or in other decker circles. Descriptions matching Bunny Hop's red rabbit persona have been noted in a few places they probably shouldn't be.
6 A name appears, associated with the bunny face vandal: Akiha. Those few who are familiar with the bunny face vandal's techniques and MO remember her taking a peculiar approach to decking, one that was indirect and seemed to flow with the Matrix rather than imposing upon it, like a digital Aikido. She spoke briefly of spirits in the wire. Disturbingly, some unrelated deckers in unrelated incidents have reported similar techniques used by a Yakuza spider in recent months, a nameless and textureless silhouette of an oni, appearing as negative space, like a hole cut into the Matrix.

Shadow Community Table

Threshold Result
1 "Solid decker, apparently. Has a whole cutesy-bunny-girl thing going on the Matrix."
3 "Yeah, I've heard of her. One of the hotter names on the Matrix right now, not so good anywhere else. Works well enough in a team though, and she's better at ghosting a host dive than most hackers, most of the time. I've heard some rumors she's a virtual kinetic, but any hacker worth anything has drek like that circulating around."
5` "So, apparently, those VK rumors have a little more meat to them than usual - she's slipped up more than once and talked about the 'soul of the Matrix' or some bullshit, and apparently has some signatures sitting on file in a triple-A or two. And you didn't hear this from me, but I got a good inside line that she's moonlighting for the Yaks as some hotshot spider too. Put the pieces together, and she's definitely two-timing somebody. I'd stay away, it's gonna blow up in her face sooner than later."

Assensing Table

Bunny Hop's aura peels away from her in thick, vaporous strands, easily visible like steam on a cold day, though chilled as a shell of frigid, stagnant air. Close to her body, the shell suddenly breaks, and she radiates a sweet warmth, scented like Spring, with the texture of rabbit down and fluff. The fuzzy, shadowed silhouette of two rabbit ears rest on top of her head. Gentle whispers surround her - on five hits, the assenser can just make out that the whispers seem to be reciting blocks of raw assembly code.

Threshold Result
1 Bun is generally healthy - not a specimen of particular physical value, but someone who is reasonably fit despite appearances. No matter what her outward expression and mood, an undercurrent of hurt and longing bleeds through, beneath her other emotions. She does not appear to be awakened.
2 Bun appears to have no cyberware.
3 Bun appears to have no alphaware, and an untouched Essence.
4 Bun appears to have no bioware or betaware. Essence 6, Magic N/A, Force N/A
5 Bun appears to have no deltaware, gene treatments, or nanotech. No chronic illness seems to afflict her physically. She is a technomancer. The slightest distortion in her aura lingers like clouds on the horizon - she is a trans-woman, and has not yet had biosculpting treatments done to align her body and soul. (Detailed in Chrome Flesh pg. 136).

SINs

Yuuji Akasaka (Fake Rating 4, UCAS)

  • Security Professional
    • Fake Firearms License (Rating 4)
    • Fake Cyberdeck License (Rating 4)
    • Fake Bodyguard License (Rating 4)
  • Note: This SIN is used exclusively for when BHop is doing work for the Yakuza.

Kei Kisuke (Fake Rating 4, UCAS)

  • College Student
    • Fake Student ID for Seattle Central College (Rating 4)

Akiha Robins (Fake Rating 6, UCAS)

  • Cybersecurity Consultant
    • Fake Driver's License (Rating 6)
    • Fake Cyberdeck License (Rating 6)
    • Fake Matrix Software License (Rating 6)

Appearance

On the meat, BHop is short and lean for a boy at only 5'8", but above average for a woman, which she's of course very self-conscious of. Her dark hair curls softly around her face, framing it well and lending it a round femininity, even as her shoulders flare on the masculine side of androgynous. She is pale, leaning more closely to her American heritage than her Japanese. Her dark eyes bounce between the bratty mischief she tries to play up online and the riptide of dull, bitter fury that swirls underneath. Overall, she is a woman of opposites struggling to reconcile.

On the impossible occasion Bun can be made to undress, a myriad of scars, those caused by burns and those caused by blades, mar her entire body, her torso especially. On her back, in the ukiyo-e style, a large tattoo of a torii gate spans from shoulder to shoulder - an eastern dragon of a deep violet color passes through and coils around her spine. Touches of blue bioluminescence glow within its eyes and beneath its scales.

Clothing

Doing Yak work, her outfits are decided for her. Button ups and blazers and belts. Her hair is done up in a top-knot. Her shoulders visibly slump in these scenarios.

Most other times, BHop covers up in facemasks, baggy hoodies and jeans. Goofy bunny faces and ironic Japanese written in gana and kana are printed all over her mask and clothes, and augmented by AR tags with light-up decorations surrounding her - speech bubbles, moving cat ears, and so on, provided neither stealth nor tact are needed. On runs, she also sports a pair of red reflective goggles to cover her eyes, and a little side-satchel to carry her gear.

Bun always has some kind of corrective vision on - typically a proper pair of glasses.

Matrix Persona

On the Matrix, Bun is much more plainly herself. She flits between personas, though typically sports two large bunny ears, whether anthropomorphic or purely fashion. Her hair is typically bright and long, defaulting to a blonde red, and her height a meager 5'1" on average, though she'll sometimes adjust to at least try to be the shortest in the conversation by a centimeter or two (with the largest chest to boot, if she's feeling jealous). Her eyes are bright and playful, mischievous and fun, always shimmering in whatever color she chooses to match her aesthetic that day - though defaulting to a deep purple. Her outfits are copious: lolita fashion, stylishly baggy street wear, promiscuous bunny outfits, and so on - she always attempts to coordinate these outfits with the body of her persona, and will adjust the color of her hair and eyes to match if needed.

When operating her unique persona on runs, as she moves swiftly, red feathers fall in her wake, apparently spawned from nothing. Subtle scents of spring follow her. Smoldering white moons the size of her fist orbit her in a perfect circle, as though a shield she can command at will.

In combat, she may unsheathe a blinding crescent moon as a katana's blade, its hilt wrapped in ofuda. A small, red rabbit charm keychain dangles from the handle. Her MARK is a cutesy rabbit-face sticker in the Sanrio/"Hello Kitty" style.

In rarer moments, when her guard is down, she may even dress down. She holds in reserve a lovingly crafted render of herself, her real body, edited only far enough to become what it always should have been. This persona is only ever shown to those she trusts.

When doing Yak work, she limits herself. A simple, textureless mesh with only the silhouette of an oni to give it shape are all she needs to please the Kanaga-gumi and disguise herself from the other side of her work.

Foundation Anchors

The Tomb of the Heavenly Host (R9) - A rabbit shaped formation in the moon when looking through the telescope of the Portal node.
AG Chemie HQ (R?) - An Easter egg stuffed into the rafters of the cargo hold of the wooden ship that is the Portal node.

Tokens

Yakuza Work Casual Obvious Runner (ID Concealed) Matrix
Bhop token meat.png Bhop token meat 2.png Bhop token meat shadowrunner.png Bhop token matrix 2.png

Character Plot Hooks

Here are characteristics of the character that GMs may take advantage of to add complications to runs, or to otherwise use when in use. If you want to use them in content unrelated to runs, please ask first.

Aspect Information Related Run(s)
A Yak in Sheep's Clothing As the "son" of the Kanaga-gumi's shategashira and an active spider for the organization, her face on the meat is known to those in the gumi and likely to some Yakuza outside of it. Though she always covers her face on runs (Hood, Sick Mask, Goggles, Ballistic Mask, Synthskin Mask, etc.), refuses to speak with her real voice, instead opting for DNI and using the speaker of her comm, and utilizes separate Matrix personas and broadcast SINs, it is possible that close contact with Yakuza personnel may reveal her identity, especially to those of the Old School. This would snowball into potentially dire consequences, especially if this information gets back to Takashi Kurosawa. Building on Biometrics, Fennec Bueller's Day Off
Hacker on Steroids Though she prefers stealth, brushes against a former demiGOD and other heavy hitters wearing both white and black hats have revealed her persona's icon to potentially powerful users in the Matrix. If her unaltered persona is spotted, it's possible that she may be recognized as a known quantity in the shadows. Recently, it has qualified her for the Unique Avatar quality, furthering her reputation in the shadows. As Goes Light, Knock Knock, Go big, go loud, or go home!, Hot Potato (Chips)
Technomancer in Hiding She is a Technomancer in hiding, meaning that she takes care to disguise herself as a decker. It's possible that this ruse could be revealed. (Trode Patch, Trode Patch Cover, and a kitbashed deck in a C-K Analyst shell is currently her cover to present as a decker on the meat. She also utilizes SINs [listed above] to sell this illusion, in particular that of Yuuki Love, private investigator.) N/A
Wanted by Null Sect After the events of Encroaching Viscosity, she is on their radar. Terrifying! Encroaching Viscosity, Graduation Day

Media Mentions

Note

I am completely fine with long term consequences for my characters, as long as it doesn't feel unannounced or forced. Long term changes to a character make more opportunities for interesting roleplay, and so don't be afraid to give them out if they are deserved.

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